Meet Our Board
Meet Our Board
Rev. Richard Tolliver
Father Richard Tolliver has been an ordained Episcopal priest for more than 45 years and serves as rector of St. Edmund’s Episcopal Church in Chicago. He is a former associate country director of the U.S. Peace Corps in Kenya, East Africa, and a former county director of the U.S. Peace Corps in Mauritania, West Africa. In 1990, he founded St. Edmund’s Redevelopment Corporation (SERC), a community development corporation dedicated to rehabilitating multifamily buildings and improving its surrounding area. He serves on many boards and commissions, and Mayor Rahm Emanuel has appointed him as a member of The Commission on Chicago Landmarks, the Board of Directors of the Chicago Low Income Housing Trust Fund, and the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee. Fr. Tolliver holds a bachelor’s degree from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio; three Master’s degrees from the Episcopal Divinity School and Boston University, and a Ph.D. from Howard University.
